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RFC 1771 - 9.2.3 Controlling Routing Traffic Overhead

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### 9.2.3 Controlling Routing Traffic Overhead

The BGP protocol constrains the amount of routing traffic (that is, UPDATE messages) in order to limit both the link bandwidth needed to advertise UPDATE messages and the processing power needed by the Decision Process to digest the information contained in the UPDATE messages.

9.2.3.1 Frequency of Route Advertisement
9.2.3.2 Frequency of Route Origination
9.2.3.3 Jitter

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RFC 1771 - 9.2.3 Controlling Routing Traffic Overhead